From: Nick Garrett   
      
   To: Mark Brentano   
      
   Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2006   
      
   Subject: I Predict A Riot by the Kaiser Chiefs   
      
      
      
   Generalissimo,   
      
      
      
   You know the ipod-bolsheviks are firmly in charge of the loony bin when the   
   Germans and our own homegrown fascists are the people standing up for   
   freedom of speech. Respeck to Wolfgang Schauble, German Home Minister: "Why   
   should the German government apologise? This is an expression of press   
   freedom."   
      
     The Guardian's really tickled me on this one: Gary Younge and Sarah Joseph   
   are pro-censorship, pro-pander: this is the cultural Marxism of political   
   correctness writ large: they are being demonised enough already, man, leave   
   'em alone. Bombs? What bombs? Younge ends up, as always, bringing Steve Niko   
   into it and a bit of anti-white bashing to boot. I know how he got his job.   
   Still it's all about kicking the shit out of western bourgeois life innit,   
   comrades.   
      
   Sarah Joseph on the other hand is worried that Muslims might *leave* Europe   
   in a huff (or, as Groucho said, a minute and a huff; if that's too soon you   
   can get a cab): 'I have also been receiving other messages. These are the   
   most worrying, and the ones of which Europe must take note. These are the   
   messages of resignation. The messages that discuss exit strategies. The   
   messages that question the very future of Muslims in Europe.'   
      
     I'm presuming she's talking about exit strategies for them and not us, but   
   with the Guardian you never know.   
      
     An Apple-Mac-Menshavik says: 'them and us, man? Tut tut.'   
      
     Ms Joseph goes on to say that the publishing of the cartoons is evidence   
   that fascism is on the rise in Europe - yes, dear, but you need to look   
   through the right end of the telescope and put it to the eye that hasn't got   
   a crescent moon-tinted eye patch over it - and insinuates that the whole   
   thing is basically 'Nazi propaganda of Der Stürmer'.   
      
    Can you top that? I mean can you even *believe* that even that children's   
   newspaper published something so juvenile, so puerile?   
      
    I too saw Scruton in the Daily Mail, writing from the comfort of a   
   well-upholstered farm in Wiltshire (lefties always refer to his farm as   
   'austere' - probably because he kills and eats animals there) about how we   
   need first to get back to 1948. I too thought 'fuck off' (and, Rog, get out   
   on the streets and see if you think there's much point in wittering on about   
   how kids should be taught respect for religion: they're filming each on   
   their phones kicking people's heads in. A screeching boorishness and   
   ignorance has set in: the swan dive of England into a third world police   
   state will be fucking peasy under the circumstances: no cunt knows anything   
   and no cunt wants to know anything).   
      
   Scruton would have us down as symptoms of a 'culture that is rotten with   
   disrespect'.   
      
   He's right in one sense: it is indeed a culture rotten with disrespect:   
   disrespect for the intelligence of the man in the street, sorry *person* in   
   the street. Look at Jack Straw. Now there's a man trying to turn this ugly   
   scrimmage into electoral advantage. Her Majesty's Secretary of State for   
   Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs' first thought was to curry favour with the   
   Muslims back in his Blackburn constituency and their relatives and company   
   directors back in India and Pakistan (he flew out there before the last   
   general election and exhibited himself to all and sundry wearing a turban   
   and scooping handfuls of dal and rice into his mouth). Hence: "I believe   
   that the republication of these cartoons has been insulting, it has been   
   insensitive, it has been disrespectful and it has been wrong".  He also said   
   the British Press had shown "considerable responsibility and sensitivity".   
      
    He obviously thinks this will regain him back some of the votes that   
   backing into the limelight in Iraq has cost him. I don't see it myself.   
   Blackburn's got six mosques and in due course someone from one of them will   
   be sending Straw packing from the house of commons.   
      
    Ken's mate al-Qaradawi wants a day of anger. He seems to not grasp the   
   connection between his preaching the creed of suicide bombing (he's   
   particular fond of the idea of child suicide bombers), Islamic terrorism and   
   a cartoon of the prophet with a bomb on his head. Me, I see the connection   
   of the ideas rather clearly.   
      
     In London we're all being told - via placards that I don't believe the   
   police would allow anyone else to use - that Osama Bin Laden is going to   
   come and get us and make way for another 7/7. Unrestricted immigration eh,   
   such a progressive idea; Enoch must be smiling gravely.   
      
     Of course the most craven panderer of the whole bunch is the US Govt. In   
   its first comment on the furore, the State Department said: "These cartoons   
   are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims."   
      
   Answering a reporter's question, its spokesman, Kurtis Cooper, said: "We all   
   fully respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled   
   with press responsibility. Inciting religious or ethnic hatred in this   
   manner is not acceptable."   
      
   Like Straw, they think they can turn this into PR gold.   
      
   The Wanky-Left in the field of Alternative Comedy went one better. Charles   
   Moore in the Telegraph spotted this: 'On the Today programme yesterday,   
   Stewart Lee, author of Jerry Springer: The Opera - in which Jesus appears   
   wearing nappies - let the cat out of the bag. He suggested that it was fine   
   to offend Christians because they had themselves degraded their iconography;   
   Islam, however, has always been more "conscientious about protecting the   
   brand".   
      
   'The implication of the remark is fascinating. It is that the only people   
   whose feelings artists, newspapers and so on should consider are those who   
   protest violently.'   
      
   For once, tory boy is right.   
      
   The whole episode shows how supine the British fourth estate is. Mind you,   
   most of them are New Labour mouthpieces and they all know we're sitting on a   
   powder keg. The BBC showed them, which was quite unexpected, but they only   
   showed them in the manner that Japanese policemen showed Paul McCartney's   
   hash stash at Tokyo airport in 1980: by flashing it.   
      
   My take is simply this: the British press should have shown solidarity with   
   the Danish and with the struggle for free speech and printed them. The   
   ensuing mayhem would have woken this slumbering, drugged island. A row   
   always clears the air and changes the energy - and then we all know where we   
   are, who believes what and whose nonsense behaviour is going to be indulged   
   and whose isn't. I'm not sure that the odious Griffin was wrong outside the   
   courtroom when he said we're heading for Bosnia. It seems to me that this is   
   a line in the sand.   
      
    Last night at Maria's, Leon began a sort of Guardianesque maunder in   
      
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